Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-01-06


JANUARY.
6. Great strike and lockout of the engi-
neers of the elevated railroad system of New
York city. Travel WIS almost entirely sus-
pended for day OF two
90. y riot occurred ct Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Ths police and the Hungarian strikers had
COLLISION, in which several of both parties
lEeTe injured.
2S. Six thousand glovemakers Of Johns
town and Gloversville, N. Y, struck for
nisher wages. The strike was not of very
ing duration.
FEBRUARY.
). The employees of the New York, Seventh
avenue, Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue and
Broadway surface roads strike successfully
for reduction of hours.
MARCH.
g. Brooklyn street car lines all Htied up"
5. General tie up of the street railroads
of New York city. 1t required $50 police
men to force car through Grand street,
where great crowd had assembled
6. Five hundred men, Knights Of Labor,
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
shops at st. Louis, quit work at the blowing
Of the noon whistle. One thousand other en-
ployes who were also Knights also struck
Z. Secret meeting held at ST. Louis, at
which the passenger engineers, brakemen,
switchmen and firemen Of the Missouri Pa
cific system decided to join the freight ham
dieIs' and carshop strike Accordingly none
qf them reported for work, and 5000 miles
Of road idle. Immense freight blockade.
o. Employees of the Troy and Lansingburg
street railroad at Troy, N. Y, struck for
Sewer hours of work. Demands granted
9. Five thousand employees of the "Gould"
railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
souri, Pacific
19. Vice-President H. NJ. Hoxie, of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, declines to confer
with the Knights of Labor or a committee
from the strikers.
y. Hoxie has conference with Governors
tfarmaluke and Martin at st. Louis.
2S. .NJay Gould accepted proposal for ar
0itration Nj. Powderly orders the men to
work
29. The district assemblies z. of L. refuse
70 obey Powderly's order, and instruct the
Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work
81. Martin Irons issues general order to
the Knights 30 resume work on the Missouri
Pacific.
81 Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
of Wilmington quit work.
81 Strike of Cohoes spinners ended. About
1000 persons affected.
APRIL.
l. The strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account of the refusal of the COM
.,any to reinstate all, the strikers.
3. 'Bloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
Texas. Strikers resist the movement of
trains, firing a volley of Winchester rifles into
a posse of deputy sheriffs, killing one and
inortalIy woundins two others The officers
replied with revolvers killing one striker.
5. Mr. Powderly formally recalls his order
- the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
WORK.
o. Deputy sheriffs in East ST. Louis fire
into a crowd, killing seven persons, only one
of whom was striker.
II Powderly makes an appeal TO Gould for
the settlement of the southwestern strike.
Gould replies. justifying his action and re-
fusing to grant the request of the Knights for
arbitration.
16 A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
49, Martin Irons the leader in the great
southwestern strike is, with three others, in
dicted by the grand grand jury at st. Louis,
for tampering with telegraph wires
Is. Widow Landgraff boycotted in New
10. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, wreck a car and have a
short but savage fight with the police.
49, The great tie up of the New York city
street railroads is off, with the exception of
the Third avenue line.
90. Trains are running without molestation
on the Gould roads, although the strikers
still profess to be confident of ultimate sue
cess.
20. The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation of the strike on the
Gould roads. 1t was continued for some
time
p. ugar house employees at Williamsburg,
N Y, on strike for an increase of wages
26 Thirty-five members of the New York
Tailors' union indicted by the grand jury for
boycotting.
81 The striking operatives of the Missouri
Car company have resumed work. The Bal
timore street car strike has also come to an
end.
o. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put on free coaches for the
accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in the cars.
So Chairman O'Donnell, Secretary Best,
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand jury at New York for ordering the
tie up OF the Third avenue cars
MAY
l. Chicago trades unions demand uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc-
ton of wages. The same demands are made
in many other cities.
l. Forty thousand men in Chicago go on
strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
CAUSE are general all over the country.
IL Ttr-.
perse meeting of Anarchists was followed
by a riot in which a dynamite bomb was
thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and wounding sixty-one.
5. RiotaTs fired upon and several killed by
the state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
s. Eore shooting occurred at Chicago be-
tween The police and Anarchists, and leading
rioters were arrested.
G. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
9. The pianoma1ers Of New York have
abandoned their demand for a reduction to
eight hours day.
TO- Bic strike at Chicago ended.
10 About $1,000 girls, employees of the
Troy, N. Y, collar and cuff factories, locked
out by the manufacturers on account of the
strike of tie laundry girls at George P. Ide &
Coz cseablishment.
81 Light thousand tailors locked out by
the Boss Tailors union, New York city.
JUNE.
q John Most, convicted of melting to riot,
was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor
for one year and to pay fine Of $500 at New
York.
3. The convention of Knights of Labor, at
Cleveland, closed. The differences with the
trades unions were not satisfactorily adjusted
4 Female members of the families of the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
stanling upon the tracks
b. Fourteen thousand horse car men, Of
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
quit work.
g. The Empire Protective association gives
up the fight against the Third Avenue road.
IL. At the meeting of the Brotherhood Of
Telegraphers at Kansas City, it was decided
to join the Knights of Labor
p. The Lake Shore switchInen at Chicago,
out on strike, became very demonstrative;
train of cars thrown off the track
JULY
81. Union employees of fourteen New York
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